zach wills

Adding capacity never removes a constraint, it relocates it.

I woke up to 77 pull requests.

This will be a longer post covering how I’m thinking about AI, engineering, and what actually matters going into the new year.

Last week, I had the opportunity to turn a list of over one hundred manual processes shared by our department leaders into a cohesive 18-month...

I’ve been in a number of conversations over the past couple of years where I’ve shared an idea or a piece of work, and someone...

Updated 2026-07-10 for the agent-teams era.

Updated 2026-07-10: these rules, first written after one week with a 20-agent swarm in August 2025, are revised here against a year of daily practice....

I’m doing a lot of hiring over the next few months, and as I prep for it, I’ve found myself stepping back to ask: What...

We’ve all seen the posts: “Tried AI on a real task—deployed bad code, cost us $800.”

It’s never been faster to build something new.